Lexis comes from the Greek tradition, meaning Defender.
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How popular is Lexis?
1998peak year
Today, Lexis is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #9407), with only about 14 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1998, 217 babies were given the name (ranked #948 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2000s. Lexis has been declining in recent years. In all, around 3,352 babies have been registered as Lexis since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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